A motorist celebrated so hard (.155% BAC) after getting her license back after a prior DUI, she got another DUI last night, San Diego drunk driving attorneys are told.

Sometimes San Diego DUI lawyers contend an accused was too drunk to Hit & Run or hurt someone or similar.  Alcohol inebriation can be a defense in some specific intent situations, San Diego California Drunk Driving attorneys remind.

Yesterday a Female Marine from Camp Pendleton San Diego County California was found guilty of Attempted Adultery with a man who was not her husband in a case involving sex and heavy alcohol use.  She was found not guilty of adultery.

Her criminal defense lawyer successfully maintained she was too drunk to consent to sex.

Because she checked into a motel and was married, she got hit with Attempted Adultery.

Rarely does the military go after a Marine for adultery.  But his woman's husband ratted her out, based on suspicions, leading to an investigation.

The motel mate was not married and claimed he did not know she was married.  He was not charged.

Of course no one talked about the DUI on the way to the motel.  There was no chemical test so that would not have gone very far, San Diego drunk driving lawyers suggest.

This initially went from an NJP to an obstruction of justice court martial prosecution since investigators told attorney prosecutors that she lied about never seeing her alleged sex partner after the incident.

San Diego State University has been known as one of the biggest party areas in the city, California DUI lawyers remind.  Drinking, drunks and DUI are no strangers to this place, attorneys know.

A speeder lost control on Montezuma just after midnight, going over a wall, knocking over a giant menorah in the front of a frat house at SDSU, hurting 2.

The Jaws of Life were used by firefighters to cut the driver and passenger out of the crashed car. The driver will face San Diego DUI charges, say local California criminal defense lawyers.

To avoid a California DUI in San Diego, read these attorney tips.

Nearly 20 years ago, San Diego DUI criminal defense lawyer Rick Mueller launched the San Diego DUI .com (www.SanDiegoDUI.com) website in California.

Since then, as President and practicing DUI attorney in San Diego and throughout California, Rick has defended many cases.   His San Diego County DUI Law Center, a professional corporation, has taken great pride and honor in representing people from all walks of life, of all races and from all locations throughout the world who happen to get a DUI in San Diego or California.

Over 30 years of handling DUI and Drunk Driving cases, Rick has never stopped:

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A catholic priest was doing a little partying last night.  So much he crashed his vehicle through an apartment building in San Diego's Pacific Beach, going through a garage and a wall before ending up in someone' apartment, say San Diego DUI attorneys.

Fortunately no one was hurt.  The priest lived next door and now faces San Diego DUI charges, lawyers say.

If you or the leader of your church are facing DUI problems in San Diego, California, begin here.

San Diego California DUI attorneys were told the 21-year-old Nathaniel was arrested shortly before 4 AM when nothing good happens at that time. Nathaniel was allegedly stopped for speeding with several other people in the vehicle.  He allegedly failed a drunk driving field sobriety test which is not peer-reviewed, lawyers are told.

Nathaniel transferred from Notre Dame at the time to vie for the starting QB position at University Montana.

Montana's brother Nate has an even more scattered playing history, as he played everywhere from California junior college to Division II West Virginia Wesleyan to Notre Dame to University of Montana.  Nate Montana will be eligible for the 2013 NFL Draft.

San Diego DUI attorneys know cops and officials can get drunk driving arrests.  The San Diego County DUI Law Center was told moments ago by the Tribune the police chief of Chicago south suburban Robbins has been arrested for DUI, 2nd time in a few years.

San Diego DUI lawyers are told sixty six year old Police Chief Johnny Holmes was driving 10:30 p.m. last Saturday in nearby Midlothian with a flask of liquor in his jacket and had a blood alcohol level of 0.194%

Chief Holmes was popped after 911 got a report a driver had almost hit her around 147th Street and Pulaski Road, according to the police report. The caller said a GMC Yukon pulled up along side her and then swerved into her lane and continued into the wrong lane.

A DUI cop saw Holmes' Yukon making an improper turn and tried to stop him at Claire Boulevard and Pulaski Road but Holmes "failed to yield to (the officer's) emergency lights and audible siren," according to the police report. Holmes went south on Maxey Court and finally stopped.

Holmes allegedly smelled of alcohol and his eyes were bloodshot. They asked him if he had been drinking and at first he said no, "then admitted he had been recently drinking at the Posen Pub. Johnny thought he was still in Posen," the police report states. Posen is about two miles east of Midlothian.

When drunk driving cops told Holmes he would have to undergo field sobriety tests, he allegedly said: "Oh, wow."

Holmes failed the tests and was taken into custody, the report said. During a search, a flask of liquor was found in the front pocket of Holmes' jacket.

In March of 2010, Holmes was also arrested in Midlothian for DUI. He was stopped on Claire Boulevard after an officer saw him swerve into oncoming traffic, police said.

Two women in Texas got felt up by a female cop who used the same gloves to "check her out" after searching the vehicle for marijuana before searching the body cavity parts, San Diego DUI lawyers discovered today.

Angel Dobbs passed a roadside DUI / DWI / Drunk Driving sobriety test and the women were given warnings for littering, attorneys are told.
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States like California were the first to allow medical marijuana users to get and use marijuana if prescribed by a doctor, attorneys remind.  That did not stop San Diego DUI police from busting people driving poorly and under the influence of marijuana.

Now Colorado and Washington are going completely LEGAL.

It will be the same issue for the dui police, say lawyers.

Marijuana becomes completely lawful in Washington state as of  December 6th but the ballot initiative has a tough DUI standard. 

Washington's marijuana law makes it ok for adults to have up to 1 oz of MJ, but illegal for that same adult to drive if the THC content of his blood reaches 5 nanograms per milliliter.

Some say regular users of medical marijuana will be stuck on the wrong side of the law.

Peter Peaquin, one of Seattle's top DUI lawyers says:"It is a Pandora's box.  Driving impaired by pot was already illegal. What changes now is that pot users have to learn to think in nanograms per milliliter. Even for someone who has built up a high tolerance. Do not get behind the wheel even if you are feeling totally fine, because the mere fact of having that level in his blood and driving a car makes him a criminal."

The Washington State Patrol gives less strict advice:  marijuana users should keep in mind that troopers won't be pulling people over for random blood tests.

"Regardless of whether this person has been a regular user of marijuana, may have a routine THC level in his blood of this point or that point, if he's driving OK, he's probably not going to come to our attention," Calkins says. "And if he's driving badly, he probably is going to come to our attention."

Besides the DUI question, pot users in Washington face another conundrum: Where to get it? The new law legalizes possession, but there's still no legal way for recreational users to acquire it. The law calls for the state to set up a network of licensed growers and pot stores, but that will take at least a year, assuming it's not challenged by the federal government. Marijuana is illegal under federal law.

In practice, though, pot is readily available, especially in places like Seattle's University District. You could go with the dealers outside the Jack in the Box restaurant, or just walk into a medical marijuana store.

Three young guys are sipping Starbucks cups filled with mushroom tea; they plan to round off their afternoon with a bit of weed. Questions about Thursday's legalization are met with a shrug.

"Nothing really changes for medical card members. If you have your cannabis card, then you're set," says one of them. "Nothing changes. You can still go to the dispensary and get your buds."

The reality is that it's easy to get medical marijuana cards for complaints like "anxiety," usually from alternative medicine clinics. Still, some obstacles to the untrammeled enjoyment of marijuana do remain in Washington. One pro-pot group was all set to hold a legalization party in a county-owned facility until officials realized it would run afoul of the state's strict ban on smoking - any kind of smoking - in public spaces.

Anonymous calls of DUI drivers are popular in San Diego California, lawyers say.

A complaint of a reckless driver drew DUI deputies to a car driving by Mr. Rew which allegedly crossed the center and fog lines. He was stopped by drunk driving cops.

Upon being requested to exit his car, he threw an ice cream cone and two napkins into the roadway, prompting a littering charge, attorneys are told.

The DUI Breathalyzer test read .31%, over 3 times the legal limit, generating charges of DWI / driving while intoxicated and aggravated DWI. He had 2 previous alcohol-related convictions in the previous seven years, making it a Felony DWI count. In California, the 4th Drunk Driving gets a driver a felony DUI charge. Event hough he faces felony, cops wrote him up for two infractions as well - failure to keep right and driving on the shoulder.

Upset over being asked to step out of his car so that his sobriety could be checked, a Niagara Falls man threw the ice cream he was eating into the street.

San Francisco Archbishop-elect Salvatore Cordileone was busted in his native San Diego for DUI, attorneys were told.

Cordileone, 56, faces charges as a result of his arrest for alleged drunk driving Saturday near SDSU / San Diego State University campus, attorneys believe.

The Vatican announced in July that Pope Benedict had appointed Cordileone, who is currently the bishop of Oakland, as the metropolitan archbishop of San Francisco.

Cordileone is known as a steadfast opponent of same-sex marriage, a stance which has made him a somewhat controversial figure in the largely liberal San Francisco Bay area.

He is replacing Archbishop George Niederauer, who is retiring. Cordileone is to be installed in his new position at a special mass at a cathedral in San Francisco on October 4.

Cordileone is chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops subcommittee for the promotion and defense of marriage.

He is presumed innocent for this San Diego DUI arrest, unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubl

San Diego DUI checkpoint locations are constantly updated here.

DUI Checkpoint Scheduled in Imperial Beach Saturday Night (Tonight). Tonight, San Diego Sheriff's deputies also patrol for DUI drivers, all from 8 p.m. and 2:30 a.m., attorneys warn.

San Diego Sheriff's deputies shall trap motorists tonight at a drunk driving checkpoint to arrest DUI drivers.

The secret location of the DUI checkpoint has not been released, but it will take place within the City of Imperial Beach, San Diego California, lawyer say.

San Diego DUI law enforcement agencies and the California Office of Traffic Safety want the public to call "9-1-1" to report weaving, erratic driving and suspected drunk drivers. Cops want the public to do their job and provide the exact location, along with vehicle make, model and license plate.

San Diego County DUI Law Center, meanwhile, wants the locations of all DUI checkpoints.

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California DUI Study notes these 6 important things:

A. There's been a pretty big increase in Drunk Driving - related arrests over the past six years, including in San Diego, attorneys are told by DMV.

B. There's also been a drop in DUI deaths.

These are because San Diego and California DUI cops have increased enforcement and DUI checkpoints, lawyers maintain.

C. There's been an increase in drug-involved driving deaths. Drug-related fatal accidents increased 63% from 2000 to 2010.

D. A Drunk Driving conviction costs about $10,000 or more, ranging from $8,000-15,000.

E. The age of a person arrested for a San Diego or California DUI in 2010 was 30 years old (median).

F. California has seen a 70% conviction rate in DUI cases.

Vehicular homicide felony DUI charges on the horizon for Brian Webb, the wrong-way driver, who crashed head-on killing a sixty year old Harley-Davidson motorcycle on Interstate 15 today, San Diego drunk driving lawyers learned.

This San Diego DUI happened in the northbound lanes south of Via Rancho Parkway just after midnight in San Diego, California DUI attorneys are told. The 2003 Dodge Ram 1500 incorrectly entered northbound I-15 the wrong way from northbound Del Lago off ramp. Just south of Via Rancho Parkway the cyclist from Escondido was riding his 2002 Harley Davidson motorcycle northbound in the same lane. Webb's truck revealed open containers. How much prison time will he get?

Yesterday, there was DUI sentencing for a nineteen year old lady who allegedly smoked weed and drank before a hit-and-run crash on an Ocean Beach freeway killing an aspiring UCSD student engineer, 23-year-old Sho Funai.

Nikolette Gallo received 1 year in jail and 5 years of probation but could have received probation or up to 4 years in jail. However, she was not charged with San Diego DUI or vehicular manslaughter. After the judge said Gallo might receive a light sentence due to her lack of a criminal record and other mitigating factors, Funai’s family and friends mobilized to call for harsher punishment.

Gallo pleaded guilty to felony hit-and-run causing death and minor in possession of alcohol. She was arrested at her home 8 hours after a passer-by found the victim’s body alongside Interstate 8, just east of Nimitz Boulevard.

Funai had a habit of walking home to avoid drinking and driving. He was new to Ocean Beach and apparently lost his way the night he was killed. Funai's BAC was .17% percent when hit.

Gallo told investigators she had just dropped off a friend in the beach area and was on her way home when she hit what she thought was a discarded sofa or a coyote.

The next morning, she saw news coverage of the pedestrian fatality and told her father she feared she may have been the motorist involved.

They contacted a San Diego DUI criminal defense lawyer, who got in touch with the CHP and said investigating officers could meet with his clients at the Gallo home. There, they got a statement from the teenager, who admitted to drinking prior to the accident, and they inspected her 2007 Toyota Camry, which had significant front-end damage.

Defense attorney Paul Pfingst alleged that the victim was walking in the middle of the road when he was hit by Gallo, and was therefore at fault — an argument that Funai’s family rejected.

During the hearing, Gallo said in a statement, “I want to sincerely say how sorry I am for the loss of your son. I am in pain every minute of every single day. I will be regretting my actions for the rest of my life.”

Marshawn Lynch allegedly weaved across lanes of traffic on the I 880 prior to his California arrest, according to San Diego DUI criminal defense attorneys.

On July 14th, a CHP DUI cop saw his 2012 Ford van as it allegedly was driven erratically in Oakland. The CHP drunk driving cop stopped the Seattle Seahawks RB at 3:20 a.m. Consistent with the caution characteristic of a sober person, Lynch prudently and safely exited at the first available freeway exit at Ashby Avenue, stopping at 67th and Shellmound streets off Interstate 80 in Emeryville, San Diego DUI criminal defense lawyers are told.

Lynch, a former Oakland Tech and Cal football star, wisely declined to indicate where he was before the drunk driving arrest, San Diego DUI criminal defense attorneys believe.

The 5-year NFL veteran should not have taken the voluntary hand-held preliminary blood alcohol test gadget on the street. He had to take a breath test at North County Jail in Oakland. Lynch was cooperative, San Diego DUI criminal defense lawyers are told.

Lynch's BAC was purportedly at or above the .08% limit. The investigation remains active.

Lynch, 26, had attended a bowling event in Albany Friday night and managed to make a scheduled appearance the following morning at a football camp held at his former high school in Oakland, both events organized by a Bay Area charity Lynch cofounded in 2006.

Lynch founded the Fam 1st Family Foundation in 2006 with fellow Oakland Tech graduate and 49ers quarterback Joshua Johnson. The foundation's goal is "to improve the lives of children by mentoring them on the importance of education, literacy and self-esteem," according to its website. Lynch was in Oakland last week to award a scholarship to recent high school graduates through the foundation.

Under the NFL's personal conduct policy, repeat offenders are characterized as those "who have had previous violations of law or of this policy." Considering Lynch's history, Rotoworld expects him to be disciplined as a repeat offender even if this is his first offense under the substance abuse policy. The All-American running back was selected by the Buffalo Bills in the first round of the 2007 NFL Draft. He was traded to the Seattle Seahawks in 2010. Lynch's drivers license was revoked in 2008 after he pleaded guilty to "failing to exercise due care toward a pedestrian." Lynch said he was unaware that he had struck a woman outside a Buffalo, NY, bar at 3:30 a.m. Lynch, a two-time Pro Bowler, was also suspended for three games in the 2009 season after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor weapons charge.

New York Knicks gave almost $10 million to Jason Kidd to play PG. The Kidd will likely give almost $10,000 when all is said and done in after being arrested this morning on an alleged drunk driving charge upon his 2010 Cadillac Escalade striking one telephone pole, then traveling from Cobb Road and Little Cobb Road in Water Mill into the forest, lawyers who do NY DWI cases are told.

Kidd, 39, was allegedly alone in the caddie, according to attorneys in San Diego. His DUI defense attorney, Eddie Burke Jr. said: "We await further discovery from the district attorney's office."

Dallas Mavs, Phoenix Suns and New Jersey Nets are his former teams before he signed for 3 years.

A domestic violence conviction in January 2001 when married to his former wife Joumana, may complicate things. Married now to Porschla Coleman, a former model. Where do these ladies get names like this?

The DUI crash was near his Water Mill $5.97 million house.

Okorie Okorocha, B.A., a highly-respected California Attorney who is also one of the most knowledgeable Toxicology Expert Witnesses in the country, recently pointed out numerous flaws in what prosecuting lawyer's' state DUI experts often claim regarding mouth alcohol.

His recent commentary on K. Sterling's "The rate of dissipation of mouth alcohol in alcohol positive subjects" (Journal of Forensic Sciences 2012) thoughtfully points out some of the problems with the paper below:

1. The whole purpose of the study was to compare the effects of contaminating residual mouth ethanol to an already existing blood ethanol concentration.

a. The pharmacokinetic status of the subjects was not determined in the study. Blood ethanol concentrations in a given subject are variable, nonuniform, discontinuous, and unpredictable during the absorption phase of ethanol kinetics. That condition provides for a very large confounder in the Sterling paper experiment. It is acknowledged by the author as well.

b. As the pharmacokinetic status of the subjects was not determined during the study, that confounder by itself is potentially so large as to make any results and conclusions in the Sterling paper forensically unreliable.

c. The author’s own data described a paradoxical event with the breath result increasing instead of decreasing with two subjects, and incredibly, they do not discuss the pharmacokinetic confounder as a possible cause.

2. The study design is not randomized for subject assignment of treatment groups. This fault is due, at least, to the lack of a placebo control group. Randomization is one of the most important study design criteria necessary to increase the strength of the study results.

3. The study design is not controlled.

a. At least the subjects should have provided negative-control breath samples before and after oral exposure to the water used in the testing. There is no way to determine whether any of the subjects were providing breath samples contaminated with endogenous volatile organic compounds that caused an interference with the breath testing device or whether the water used contained any volatile organic compounds that caused an interference with the breath testing device.

b. The lack of a negative control in the study design by itself makes the results and conclusions forensically unreliable.

4. The study design does not describe subject inclusion criteria (if any). There is no description of any medical screening or medication screening or other requirements.

5. The study design does not describe subject exclusion criteria(if any). Therefore, it is unknown whether the subject population was homogenous or not.

6. Importantly, there are no inclusion or exclusion criteria regarding the oral health of the subjects, specifically concerning the presence or absence of extensive dental work, bridges, plates, dentures, or other structural anomalies of the oropharynx, all of which represent potential confounders in this study.

7. The volume of ethanol used for contamination of the oropharynx of each subject was not controlled. That by itself makes the results and conclusions forensically unreliable.

8. The duration of ethanol exposure in the oropharynx of each subject was not controlled. That by itself makes the results and conclusions forensically unreliable.

9. The method of ethanol contamination of the oropharynx of each subject was not specified. That is another uncontrolled variable that makes the results and conclusions forensically unreliable.

10. It appears that the author misunderstands and misapplies the medical term gastric regurgitation as applied to the contamination of a breath ethanol sample.

a. Gastric regurgitation includes ‘‘the casting up of incompletely digested food,’’ commonly known as vomiting. Gastric regurgitation is an unlikely and rare event in the breath ethanol testing arena.

b. And it is not believable as the author suggests that a possible mechanism of mouth ethanol contamination in this study (or any other study) is by ‘‘regurgitation before each test.’’

c. Gastric reflux is the retrograde movement of solids, liquids, and gases from the stomach up the esophagus. Gastric reflux of stomach gases is a very common event, often silent and unnoticed by the person experiencing it, and often undetected by nearby observers. This is the more common mechanism of contamination of a breath sample from gastric contents.

11. Contamination of a breath sample by the presence of residual mouth alcohol is a completely different mechanism of contamination.

a. Ethanol may remain in the oropharynx for a variable period of time after the conclusion of a drinking episode. The reasons include anatomic variation and anomalies of the oropharynx, dental abnormalities, bridges, dentures, and others.

b. The origin of the ethanol is from the ethanol beverage(s) consumed, not from the gastric contents.

12. As a result of the poor study design and obvious fatal flaws in methodology, the Sterling paper cannot be relied upon for its data or conclusions.

San Diego County DUI Law Center has new DMV Manual language blogs, Drunk Driving Refusal postings, and articles regarding how the DMV decides their hearings and resolves credibility issues.

Here's the most recent DMV articles by DUI Attorney Rick Mueller of the San Diego County DUI Law Center:

DMV’s DUI APS decision-making process

DUI Testimony at DMV Hearing

DMV DUI Hearing Stipulations, Objections & Rebuttal of Issue

California DUI DMV APS Manual – 2.100 “Continuances”, 2.101 “Good Cause”, & 2.102 “Continuance Justification”

Refusal DUI Defenses per DMV

Intro to DMV DUI “Refusals”v Everything DMV teaches its Hearing Officers about DUI “PAS” Test

DUI Urine Test

15 Minute Continuous Observation Before Breath Test (Manriquez)

DMV DUI Breath Testing: Standards & Deviation

DMV DUI Arrest or Blood Report Not Admissible unless “made at or near time of event”

Apply for Termination of California DMV’s DUI Suspension Action based on Out of State Residency

Excessive BAC DUI DMV APS Hearings

How DMV establishes DUI Times of Driving, Arrest & Test

Military Police and DUI DMV

California DUI DMV Roadblock Criteria & Motorists’ Right to Avoid Checkpoint DUI Search & Seizure at California DMV

Lawful DUI Arrest or Detention at DMV

Insufficient DUI Evidence of Intoxication can be non-alcohol reasons or minimal symptoms or passing FST’s

DMV should not suspend if lack of DUI evidence of “DRIVING”

DMV Issue: Reasonable Cause to Believe the Person was Driving a Motor Vehicle in a DUI

Attorney Video of DUI Defenses in a San Diego DMV Hearing

“Reasonable Cause” – the 1st DUI Issue in a DMV Hearing

DMV Hearing Issues after DUI

San Diego California DMV DUI Hearing Documents

Probable Cause – Attacking Conclusionary Statements on the DMV DS 367

DUI DMV California restriction after suspension

Procedures and Consequences of an Out of State DUI Conviction

Pink “DMV” ADMINISTRATIVE PER SE SUSPENSION/REVOCATION ORDER AND TEMPORARY DRIVER LICENSE

DMV Driver Safety Manual for DUI / Administrative Hearing Officers

Restricted License after Conviction for California Vehicle Code 23152 following San Diego DUI arrest

Can DMV Cut, Paste & Incorporate Probable Cause from Unsworn DUI Report? (Siemen v. Valverde distinguished)

How does a Minor’s Prior DUI conviction affect a second DUI and the DMV?

SAN DIEGO DUI lawyers remind Americans the Fourth of July is one of the deadliest holidays of the year due to DUI / drunk driving alcohol‐impaired driving accidents.

San Diego drunk driving attorneys warn motorists Fourth of July Avoid the 14 DUI Task Force will increase drunk driving enforcement efforts as part of the ongoing "Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over".

San Diego DUI's Task Force sends out DUI Saturations Patrols Tuesday, July 3.

Independence Day is Wednesday. Some folks take the rest of the week off so DUI checkpoints are expected at these locations and throughout the weekend.

A San Diego county DUI Checkpoint will pop up Saturday, July 7th from 6:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. in Coronado.

Fourth of July celebrations start during the day and last well into the night – making the dangers from impaired drivers even higher at night.

The Avoid the 14 DUI Task Force reminds everyone that there are numerous consequences as a result of being caught driving impaired, such as the risk of killing or harming others, jail time, insurance hikes, potential loss of driver’s license, just to name a few.

The Avoid the 14 DUI Task Force knows how to do a safe Fourth of July:

- Plan a safe way home before the fun begins;

- Before drinking, designate a sober driver;

-If you’re impaired, use a taxi, call a sober friend or family member, or use public transportation;

-If you happen to see a drunk driver on the road, don’t hesitate, Report Drunk Drivers! Call 911!

Pacific Beach's Drunk Driving reputation unfolded a new chapter today as a sixty-three-year-old driver and a forty-one-year-old female passenger got hurt after their truck crashed into a wall in San Diego, DUI defense lawyers learned today. The San Diego drunk driving accident on Ingraham Street near Crown Point Drive was reported at 4:50 a.m., San Diego DUI attorneys are told. The pick-up truck slammed into the wall at such a fast speed that the occupants had to later be extricated by firefighters. The couple went to the hospital but hopefully will survive. The woman suffered serious leg injuries. Felony DUI charges are expected to be filed in San Diego Superior Court. Ingraham shut down between Buena Vista Street and West Mission Bay Drive & later reopened about 10:00 this morning.

One reputable Command Master Chief of the San Diego California guided missile destroyer Gridley has been fired after his DUI arrest in Millington, Tennessee, Navy Surface Forces tell San Diego DUI criminal defense attorneys.

Command Master Chief (SW/AW/FMF) William R. Adams was fired thirteen days ago by his CO, Commander Benjamin Allbritton, for the stated reason of loss of confidence in Adams’ ability to fulfill his role, according to what lawyers learned from Naval Surface Forces in San Diego.

A retired E-9, Maurice C. Poulin, responds that he does not understand why any charge against any chief for drinking is so serious now. He retired in 1966 and says most chiefs liked to drink and it did not effect their perfomance as chiefs. He thinks the military is hurting themselves by not using chiefs as professionals.

The firing came of the DUI arrest day after a pre-deployment conference for the Gridley, which is scheduled to deploy later this year.

Other disciplinary and administrative action is possible, pending the outcome of a command investigation still underway. Adams has been administratively reassigned during that investigation, but did not specify where he has been sent.

Adams is the 10th senior enlisted leader fired this year by the U.S. Navy.

2 young folks arrested in San Diego County for violating the Social Host Laws will tell you it is not worth serving minors or assisting someone in getting a California DUI later, attorneys warn.

With summer time and graduation, it started with an under 21 years of age alcohol party in Encinitas California.

San Diego Sheriff's Drunk Driving/DUI/Under 21 Deputies got a call regarding a loud party in the 3100 block of Brookside Lane in Encinitas Saturday, June 16 after 10 p.m.

Drunk Driving cops arrived. 200 people were inside the house. Kids were hiding in closets and bathrooms.

Alcohol in the patio, kitchen and living room was seen by the San Diego DUI cops.

The party shut down. The cops telephoned the underage partygoers' parents to pick up their kids from the scene.

Eighteen-year-old Laurenz Jacobsen allegedly violated the social host ordinance after telling DUI deputies his parents were out of town and he hosted the party after recently graduating from La Costa Canyon High School.

Twenty-year-old Corey Lamb was arrested two blocks away from the party for being drunk in public. A 17-year-old boy was also arrested for being drunk in public, violating curfew and resisting arrest.

Under California's Social Host rules, there are serious consequences for San Diego parents/adults who allow teens and their friends to consume alcohol in their homes. A social host does not have to be 21 years of age to be in violation of the law. The homeowner or property owner can be held liable for cost recovery. Social host violations may carry a fine of up to $1,000 on the first offense. Subsequent violations carry a fine of up to $2,000 or up to 32 hours of community service or up to 6 months in jail. You may also be held liable for injuries sustained by third parties as a result of the minor guest’s negligence. A social host can also be liable for the cost of responding law enforcement services.

California DUI Lawyers in SAN DIEGO County

The first three attorneys are DUI Specialist Members in San Diego County.

Rick (George Fredrick) Mueller Specialist Member

San Diego County DUI Law Center 4660 La Jolla Village Drive Suite 500 San Diego, CA 92122

PHONE: 858 587-6055 FAX: 858 451-9097 EMAIL: rick@sandiegodui.com WEBSITE: www.sandiegodui.com

G. Cole Casey Board Member - Specialist Member

Attorney at Law 2550 5th Avenue, Ste. 815 San Diego, CA 92103

PHONE: 619 237-0384 FAX: 619 237-0109 EMAIL: cole@duisandiego.com WEBSITE: www.duisandiego.com

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Michael Fremont Board Member - Specialist Member

2727 Camino Del Rio South Suite 135 San Diego, CA 92108

PHONE: (888) 908-1919 FAX: 760 635-0654 EMAIL: michaelfremont91@gmail.com WEBSITE: www.notguiltyduisandiego.com

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"Big Mac" time is 3 a.m. in Minnesota for Vikings player J. Felton. Idling in a 24 hour drive-thru lane at McDonald's near Minneapolis, DUI cops responded to a purported report of an alleged impaired man who was hungry, DUI criminal defense attorneys in San Diego learned today.

Fullback Felton did not get his food and instead finds himself facing second-degree drunk driving / DWI / DUI - driving while intoxicated with the aggravating factor of refusal to take a required chemical test under implied consent law. Posted a $12,000 drunk driving / DWI / DUI bond and went home, lawyers are told.

Big MacFelton is not the first NFL players having fun or hungry at a drive-thru fast food joint. The best is the 2006 arrest of Detroit Lions assistant coach Joe Cullen, sitting naked in his vehicle at a Wendy's window. That clothing optional choice, then a DUI arrest, got Coach Cullen a $20,000 suspension penalty.

Tiger Woods won the Memorial and tied Jack Nicklaus' record. Meanwhile there's a little problem with the guy who got Tiger huge endorsements a la Arnold Palmer and Michael Jordan. Tiger's agent got a DUI. Mark Steinberg was popped for drunk driving charges in the roadblock burbs of New York, attorneys learned in San Diego today.

DUI Police maintain Steinberg was trapped at a constitutionally valid DUI checkpoint Saturday night. In addition to DWI, at a purported and alleged .18%, he faces the l5% enhancement of aggravated driving while intoxicated, lawyers are told.

Tiger talked to Steinberg prior to Sunday's final round at the Memorial. Woods, who has had his own legal problems, decided not to say anything more. For a list of recent San Diego California DUI checkpoint spots, click on San Diego County DUI Law Center's free site.

NFL wide receiver Justin Blackmon was arrested on a complaint of aggravated DUI early Sunday in Stillwater, according San Diego DUI attorneys at San Diego County DUI Law Center. Blackmon went to jail about 10 a.m., lawyers are told. However, no details are presently provided. Per Oklahoma law, aggravated Drunk Driving is defined as the driver's BAC level at .15% or higher. On April 26, 2012's NFL draft, 22 year old Blackmon was chosen by the Jacksonville Jaguars with the 5th pick overall.

Friday May 25, 2012 4:51 p.m.

San Diego DUI attorneys at San Diego County DUI Law Center just learned that San Diego Police Department will set up a drunk driving roadblock to trap Pacific Beach motorists Saturday night, May 26, 2012. Lawyers warn to stay away from Garnet and Grand Avenues, the believed location of the presently undisclosed DUI checkpoint in San Diego this holiday weekend.

For all current locations of San Diego DUI checkpoints, check Rick Mueller's free site here.

San Diego Criminal Defense Lawyer & Personal Injury Attorney Mary Prevost believes lawsuits against San Diego Police Department are worth everybody's attention.

Mary's sound advice:

"People need to take a stand and make sure they're protected by the police, not victimized by them," Mary maintains. "And if you're a woman, always carry pepper spray."

Recnetly, San Diego Police Department DUI Officer Anthony Arevalos was sentenced to almost 9 years in prison for multiple counts of sexual assault and battery — most of which took place at DUI stops.

Arevalos's accusers claim the San Diego Police Department knew about the dirty DUI cop's behavior the entire time. Mary Prevost claims this pattern is repeating itself across the United States.

SDPD DUI cop Arevalos, says prominent San Diego Lawyer Mary Prevost, who represents another of his accusers, identified only as Jane Roe, is "a microcosm of what's out there in everybody's neighborhood." Technological advances, like cell phone cameras and webcams, create a growing awareness that "a lot has been swept under the rug for a long time," Mary maintains.

One Ashley Steele claims she was the designated driver when San Diego Police Officer Anthony Arevalos pulled her over. She passed both a Breathalyzer and drunk driving field sobriety test, but that Arevalos decided to search her for "contraband," touching her breasts and buttocks and placing his hand "on top of her vagina." He then handcuffed her and took her to a police station, where she said she needed to use the bathroom. She alleges that he then took her to the bathroom himself, shut the door, and watched her urinate. Then he allegedly drove her to another station for booking, all the while asking if her breasts were real and if she had a boyfriend.

In her suit, Steele alleges that by the time she came into contact with Arevalos, the San Diego Police Department had already gotten complaints about him, but had neglected to follow up. In response to these allegations, city attorney's office communications director Gina Coburn claims that there had been one reported incident before Steele's. "Internal Affairs investigated that prior alleged incident and found insufficient evidence, but referred the matter anyway to the District Attorney’s office, which reviewed the evidence and declined to prosecute," she says. But Steele's suit says there were two reports beforehand, and that Arevalos also frequently bragged to other officers about pulling over attractive women.

The city has filed several motions in recent weeks in the case of Jane Roe, who says Arevalos "grabbed her genitals." One, seeking the release of Roe's real name, was just denied by a judge. Prevost claims the real goal of the motion was "to out her name to the press and to be abusive." Now attorneys for the city have filed another motion, to strike previous claims of sexual misconduct by other SDPD officers from the suit. Prevost believes this motion will fail because those claims are "relevant to a citywide policy" of ignoring or actively abetting police misconduct. She says this policy is still very much in effect — she cites another suit, filed in April by former Mesa, Arizona police officer Javier Cota, who says he was falsely arrested in June 2011 when he tried to intervene with two SDPD officers (neither of whom was Arevalos) who were allegedly harassing women.

San Diego County DUI Law Center features this free drunk driving location site for checkpoints and roadblocks.

Escondido drunk driving patrol from 6 p.m. May 5 to 2 a.m. May 6 resulted in DUI Police making 49 traffic stops, making 14 folks do optional field sobriety tests and arresting 8 drivers on suspicion of DUI during a San Diego County AVOID Task Force DUI saturation patrol over the Cinco de Mayo weekend.

San Diego's drunk driving criminal defense attorney Rick Mueller has a free evaluation online if arrested for DUI.

The San Diego County DUI Law Center has just released a new Series of Articles on the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) Driver Safety Hearing Office Manual changes.

The DMV attempts to increase its improper stranglehold on attempts by those accused of driving in DUI cases who simply exercise their constitutional right to remain silent. Lawyers have long accused DMV of unfair hearings.

DMV published these new sections in their chapter 12 on administrative per se hearings.

There are pointed blogs in response to this unlawful state corruption: San Diego DUI Lawyer Center and California DUI Lawyer Center Blog. Read them now and ask yourself if it is ok for the Department of Morons & Villains to bypass the U.S. Constitution and California case law.

Lawyers in California have wondered how long it would take before a key state prevents the toke & drive. San Diego DUI attorneys are stunned by this news flash.

How does a state make a marijuana standard for drivers?

Here's what Colorado purports to do for a MJ DUI: if five nanograms or more of Delta 9 THC per milliliter in whole blood while driving or within two hours of driving could be charged with DUI per se.

This marijuana bill attacks Rocky Mountain Highers from driving under the influence of drugs and by increasing the penalties for doing so.

There was no previous DUI per se charge for people who drive under the influence of drugs.

Now, drivers whose blood contains five nanograms or more of Delta 9 THC per milliliter in whole blood while driving or within two hours of driving could be charged with DUI per se.

"It is the most liberal law not only in the United States at five nanograms, but quite possibly in the world."

What happened? This exact bill failed last year in the Senate after clearing the House. His continued push comes from what he calls an alarming trend.

"While the overall number of car accidents statewide has gone down over the past four years, those involving THC have actually gone up 59 percent."

This DUI drugs law would take the subjectiveness out of DUI arrests by establishing that nanogram cap.

DUI drugs law opponents say it will be expensive: the cost of this law, an umbrella type of approach, and they say there is no science behind the push. Many are quoted as questioning the usefulness of a five nanogram standard because THC lingers in the user's system.

Steve Elliot, a writer for internet blog "Toke of the Town" reports that medical marijuana patient and Denver Westword reviewer William Breathes registered at nearly triple the proposed limit when completely unimpaired and sober during a test last year.

Elliot says such evidence resulted in the original bill being shelved last year in favor of more study.

But local prosecutors say the testing that would be done if the bill passes would exclude users after a just a few hour window.

Fatal accidents involve drivers with only marijuana in their system. At a reading of the bill, the Senator listed off a number of accidents involving drugged drivers.

King claims there is valid science behind this cause. "The science is there and it's written in the blood of innocent people killed by DUI-D drivers."

More than a dozen states have laws on the books limiting the amount of THC drivers can have in their system. Pennsylvania has a similar 5 nanogram limit, a few other states have 2 nanogram thresholds, while many have a zero tolerance policy.

The bill now headed to the house and expected to easily pass also includes DUE per se charges for drivers who test positive for schedule-one controlled substances and a variety of synthetic drugs.

A legislative analysis released Monday estimated the pot DUI bill would cost more than half a million dollars next year to implement, requiring the bill to also be approved by the spending committee.

If you are a California driver under the age of 21 years old and were arrested for a first offense San Diego DUI or cited for an underage BAC driving offense, this new San Diego Drunk Driving criminal defense attorney article explains how to get a restricted license after 30 days. If your San Diego DUI lawyer prevails at the DMV hearing, this process will not be necessary. This DUI license restriction information is from the California DMV:

Hardship Restriction – Drivers Under Age 21

Pursuant to §13353.8 VC upon issuing an order suspending a driving privilege as a result of a violation of §23136(a), the department may impose restrictions on a person’s driving privilege based upon a showing of a “critical need to drive.” This applies if within 10 years of the current violation of §23136 VC, the driver has not violated §23136 or has a prior APS action or conviction and has not been suspended or revoked for a PAS or other chemical test refusal.

“Critical need to drive” means the circumstances that are required to be shown for the issuance of a junior permit pursuant to §12513 Vc.

Types of restrictions allowed may be:

- To and from school - For family illness - To and from work - For family enterprise and/or business.

Do not impose the restriction earlier than the 31st day after the effective date of the order of suspension.

An APPLICATION FOR CRITICAL NEED RESTRICTION, DS 694, must be completed and submitted to the Driver Safety Actions Unit in headquarters.

If approved, a $100 reissue fee must be paid and a California Insurance Proof Certificate, SR 22, must be submitted. Upon receipt, restriction and comment indicating the restriction will be updated on, the driver record.”

It is best to consult with a San Diego California DUI Attorney Specialist on how to properly handle this process.

San Diego DUI Lawyers want police to know that if they have legal problems and need an attorney, help will be provided. One San Diego County sheriff’s deputy convicted of DUI and hit & run was a police woman arrested in Palm Desert in August who faced 7 charges. She allegedly left the scene of a minor traffic collision on state Route 74 and drove to an apartment complex parking lot where she struck several parked cars and ran over a pedestrian’s foot. Also, she allegedly then drove several miles to a country club, where she allegedly crashed into a water fountain. Her sentence is 90 days of home detention. The California Superior Court Judge ordered San Diego County Sheriff's Department Deputy Barbara Crozier to serve 5 years of informal probation, completion of a DUI alcohol class. Crozier is still employed by the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department. She can still possess a firearm.

San Diego DUI criminal defense attorneys understand that people like to use their cell phone too much while driving. If the police see you illegally texting, talking on a non-hands-free cellular phone or driving erratically, the San Diego county cop may stop you and cite you. If you have been drinking, this could lead to a full-blown DUI evaluation, San Diego attorneys say. A distracted driver is unsafe, perhaps unsafer than a San Diego California DUI driver, lawyers are told.

San Diego County Sheriff’s Department & San Diego's CHP (California Highway Patrol) teamed up to look for and pull over distracted drivers in San Diego County recently.

Goal: cite California violators for hands-free useage of cell phones and text messaging laws, Deputy Sheriff's and Highway Patrol Officers were out on the streets and highways of San Diego County looking for violations.

From April 9 to April 14, 2012, here's the "distracted driving" take by police in San Diego county:

Citations to Adult Drivers for violations of non-hands-free( 23123 CVC) or texting while driving (23123.5 CVC): 438

Citations to Juveniles for Zero Tolerance Violations (23124 Vehicle Code): Four

Observed Violations/No contact made due to priority calls: 514

Arrests: Four arrests were made after contact for distracted driving.

Many driver cited have prior citations for some form of distracted driving.

14 San Diego DUI drivers were arrested after being trapped at Ingraham drunk driving checkpoint in Pacific Beach, lawyers are told today. 1,400 person passed through this San Diego DUI checkpoint which could not be avoided at 2600 block of Ingraham Street between 9:30 p.m. Saturday and 2:45 a.m., according to San Diego DUI attorneys who keep track of San Diego DUI checkpoint & roadblock locations at this free website. This San Diego DUI roadlbock & drunk driving checkpoint was sponsored by San Diego Police Department and the nearby California Highway Patrol. 5 San Diego DUI drivers were arrested during saturation patrols in Chula Vista, California DUI attorneys are told. San Diego area DUI Officers nabbed 3 drivers with a suspended license and 2 unlicensed drivers during the DUI enforcement. The Chula Vista patrols were held in lieu of a scheduled checkpoint due to weather.

San Diego DUI criminal defense lawyers were told today that last night, an alleged San Diego DUI driver rescued a stranded motorist injured in the crash. The stranded guy was in a broken-down red truck on the shoulder of the I-805 at the 52. The victim was apparently on the side of the road as his son was enroute to rescue. See this video on Yahoo. An alleged San Diego drunk driver in a newer model BMW hit the man's vehicle on the freeway. The San Diego DUI arrestee was allegedly driving at "full" speed when he accidentally rammed the back of the broken pickup truck, DUI lawyers are told. The slam ripped the vehicle's axle off. Then its gas tank burst in flames upon explosion. Gas burnt and spread all over the road, says 1 of 3 of San Diego's California DUI Lawyers Association (CDLA) DUI attorneys. San Diego county firefighters mentioned it appeared like "a lake of fire." Injuries were immediately sustained by the victim upon impact. The alleged DUI victim was reportedly stuck in the burning pickup. The BMW driver - with help from another Good Samaritan - managed to save the victim by pulling him from the vehicle which was continuing to flame. The man later arrested for a San Diego DUI managed to drag the accident victim from the burning vehicle. Upon arrival by emergency units from San Diego County, the pickup truck was entirely engulfed in a flaming gas pool. Firefighters put the flames down, and rushed victim to a San Diego hospital. The Good Samaritan driver agreed to perform voluntary DUI tests. San Diego CHP DUI police claim he did not pass these acrobatics. It is unknown what weight, if any, was given to the fact that the Good Samaritan BMW driver may have been traumatized from a major accident. The Good Samaritan DUI arrestee suffered significant head and facial injuries as a result of this near-death impact, which may account for his failure to perform per the San Diego CHP DUI officer's satisfaction. While there may be innocent explanations for the so-called "fail" or "not completed per instructions," the gentleman was arrested for a San Diego DUI. It is unknown what the damages are to his BMW but he apparently will face some steep tow and impound fees for this San Diego drunk driving charge.

In San Diego county last night and tonight, Chula Vista Police Department features DUI Saturation Patrol on 04/13/12 from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. and a DUI Checkpoint on April 14th, 2012 from 6:00 p.m. and 2:00 a.m. as weather permits, San Diego DUI attorneys warn. Driver's License Check is another purported reason for the roadblock, DUI lawyers in San Diego are told. DUI checkpoint locations in San Diego County are updated here by San Diego County DUI Law Center's attorney Rick Mueller. DUI cops do it this way: trap drivers at the San Diego county DUI checkpoint. They try to look for possible symptoms of alcohol & drug use or impairment, San Diego drunk driving lawyers are told. Remember acrobatics & gymnastics aka field tests are optional. Be polite & respectful. San Diego DUI cops claim they are also looking for valid California licenses. Incredibly, San Diego DUI checkpoint cops further maintain they will delay drivers "only momentarily." That usually does not happen, criminal defense attorneys know. There is lots of DUI money involved for San Diego county municipalities: fines, fees, DUI classes, costs, etc....can "exceed $10,000."

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Under the Interstate Driver's License Compact (DLC), member States must communicate the fact of a conviction for DUI to the "Home State", according to the National College for DUI Defense lawyers' website. San Diego DUI lawyers remind that the "Home State" then takes action against the license under its own laws. Forty-five States are currently members of the Interstate Compact, according to these DUI attorneys. Out of State convictions count. Under all but a few geographical exceptions, it will be impossible for an out of State resident to avoid serious consequences in their home state. Suspension can however be avoided if proper steps are taken in the Courtroom and with the DMV. In addition to the Compact, non-residents need to be concerned with the impact of any action taken by the DMV in the offense State against their right to drive in their home State. Many out-of-state residents mistakenly assume that their license will remain valid in their home State even if they lose their right to drive in the offense State. Under the registry, (All 50 States) any State that suspends your license must input the suspension into the Registry's computer databank. Every member State is required to check the registry's databank whenever a person seeks to have his license renewed or applies for a new license, and are required to deny the license if there is an out of state suspension.

Police Chief charged with DUI refuses voluntary tests, reports the San Diego County DUI Law Center. Maybe the Chief knows that little or no reliable can be placed on the outcome of field sobriety tests aka acrobatics aka gymnastics, San Diego DUI attorneys suggest. Read this San Diego Fox News story.

Escondido Police Department plans yet another California DUI / Drivers License checkpoint Saturday, April 7, 2012 from Six P.M. to midnight. Police will patrol all night and especially between 12 PM and 3:00 AM. Escondido DUI Checkpoints in California are common. Exact locations are maintained by San Diego County DUI Law Center here. California DUI Officers take those trapped in the checkpoint to San Diego County Jail. So stay alert and sober.

You hate to see California cities unfairly profit. But San Diego DUI attorneys know it happens. The money San Diego DUI lawyers say Escondido makes off checkpoints is now in question. Illegally profiting from San Diego county California DUI checkpoints? Escondido’s checkpoints started out as “driver’s license checkpoints,” purportedly designed to catch hit-and-run drivers and typically conducted during morning hours. But state law prohibits stopping drivers solely to check their license status, so Escondido renamed the daylight operations DUI “sobriety checkpoints.” But state grant money cannot be used for “sobriety checkpoints” before 6 p.m., after which drunk drivers are more prevalent. The latest criticisms, from investigative documentary reporter John Carlos Frey of Los Angeles and the local chapter of the ACLU, involve Escondido’s towing, impoundment and processing fees, which once approached $1,300 for each seized car but plummeted recently because of a new state law that imposed tighter restrictions on impoundments. A report by Escondido’s Finance Department showed that it costs the city $185.05 to seize a car, and that it charges motorists $100 or $180 depending on the circumstances. City Manager Clay Phillips says that, based on the report, the city’s charges are appropriate. The city also denies that it is misusing state grant money. But Frey and the ACLU say Escondido’s charges are significantly higher than what other local cities charge. San Diego, for example, charges $54; San Marcos, $58; Poway, $70; and Vista, $120. In the last three years, Escondido and tow companies reportedly raked in $11 million from seized cars. Because of the new state law, Escondido must now allow a sober driver whose only offense is not having a valid license to turn the car over to a licensed driver. That is what other cities were doing all along. Escondido long ago lost credibility on the checkpoint issue. According to the ACLU, some $350,000 in state grant money is unaccounted for. And is it plausible that Escondido’s costs for seizing a car are three times that of San Diego’s? Or that it took just 33 minutes of police labor for Escondido to seize a car in 2007 but it now requires 187.5 minutes? Seizing a car, according to Escondido, costs $1.44 in wear and tear on bulletproof vests and $5.77 in patrol unit depreciation and maintenance. Really? All of this may well land Escondido in court, and will only add to its unfortunate reputation as a city that goes overboard in targeting undocumented immigrants. But it should not come to that. Escondido ought to ask an independent agency, perhaps the state auditor, to conduct a review. Otherwise, suspicions will continue to grow that in trying to enforce the law, the city is in fact abusing it.

San Diego DUI criminal defense lawyers are often asked what is a "wet and reckless."

Any tour of multiple breweries carries with it both the possibility of discovering the next big thing or the next big disappointment. Sometimes a brewing company you had little to zero expectations for shocks your taste buds into standing up, taking notice and turning you into a lifelong fan or vehement hater. Other times, a place turns out to be everything you thought it would be and possibly even more. That was the case for a Reader writer with Wet ‘N Reckless.

Wet ‘N Reckless is located at 10054 Mesa Ridge Court, Suite 132, San Diego California.

Despite hearing multiple negative reports, I forced myself to leave them all behind as my companions and I made our way through the Mira Mesa business park labyrinth to Wet ‘N Reckless. Objectivity is not only important, but something it’s my duty to maintain until given firsthand evidence to abandon. Entering the small, mashed together, juvenilely decorated tasting room did little to foster encouragement, but no brewer should be judged on their interior design skills. We ordered a eight-beer taster flight, took our seat at a flimsy wooden table and sampled away.

Rather than spend paragraphs dissecting the individual problems we found in each beer, I’ll mercifully sum up the general problems we found across the line in as brief a manner as possible. Overall, the beers were syrupy (you could probably lacquer your woodshop creations with Hells Belg), suggestive of large amounts of diacetyl (too many to individually note), tasted awful (all of them), were the wrong color (the most unidentifiably dark IPA I’ve ever seen), and terribly named (Genocide IPA, Pop My Cherry Ale).

Speaking of ill-conceived names, “wet and reckless” is a term used to describe a type of DUI plea in the State of California. Wet ‘N Reckless owner Dave Hyndman claims the name of his business has nothing to do with any of that and refers to his “reckless” (you can say that again) brewing style. Further driving all of that what-not home is a handful of laser-printed signs posted up in the tasting room encouraging people to consume responsibly and drive safely. My favorite was the one taped up next to a poster of sobriety spokesmodel, Jeff Spicoli.

The total cost for our shared misery was nine dollars—over a buck per plastic cup (because, really, nothing maintains the temperature, flavor and integrity of an artisanal beverage like plastic, right?) of subpar suds. Despite the three of us reluctantly taking second and third sips, trying to find redeeming qualities to note, not one of those beers got finished. I’m still reeling at the fact our hard-earned money was exchanged for lazily manufactured, extract-infused shortcut beer.

That’s right…extract is used. That in itself is not the worst thing in the world. I know many homebrewers—you know, beginners just getting their feet wet (but not necessarily reckless)—who produce totally drinkable extract brews. When given encouraging compliments, they typically smile before shrugging and saying stuff like, “thanks, but it’s just an extract brew…I’m working my way up to all-grain brewing.”

What’s the point in going to all the work when you can just take extract recipes, open up shop and join the ranks of San Diego’s rich pantheon of award-winning, top notch brewmasters? I suspect Hyndman is about to find out.

I don’t presume to be clairvoyant or have the end-all opinion where craft beer is concerned, but I possess a pretty solid understanding of San Diego, our drinkers, and the rest of the local beer industry playing field. Not only can Wet ‘N Reckless not hang with the likes of heavy hitting Major Leaguers like AleSmith, Ballast Point and The Lost Abbey—they’ll be hard pressed to sustain a meager life treading water in the minors, especially with Green Flash Brewing Company’s grand scale facility occupying the intersection giving way to Wet ‘N Reckless’ obscure, darn-near-hidden digs. It’d be like passing up The French Laundry and driving a longer distance to get to Jacque dans le Boîte (Jack in the Box).

DUI driving or DWT driving when texting is dangerous and can easily be the reason for a collision, San Diego DUI attorneys remind.

What about that known silent risk factor that slows down reaction time just as much, if not more: drowsy driving, ask DUI lawyers in San Diego?

If you are tired or driving drowsy, please safely pull off the road at the first safe and legal chance to do so.

“Most people know [the danger involved] when they’ve had a little too much to drink and then drive,” says Phil Konstantin of San Diego, California, who served on the CHP for 20 years. “But almost every single driver is likely to drive [drowsy] at one time. Yes, it happens at night on the highway, but it also happens in the middle of the day on a small road in town.”

In the November 2010 study, the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety found that 41 percent of drivers admitted to falling asleep or nodding off while driving at some point in their lives. More than one in four drivers admitted to driving when they were “so sleepy that [they] had a hard time keeping [their] eyes open” at least once in the month before the survey was conducted.

In a report published last year, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimated that drowsy driving was involved in 2.2 to 2.6 percent of all fatal crashes nationwide each year during the period of 2005 through 2009. In 2009, drowsy driving was involved in 832, or 2.5 percent, of fatal crashes in the United States.

Konstantin knows far too much about the topic, both professionally and personally. As a public affairs officer for the California Highway Patrol, Konstantin gave talks on public safety and driving. One of the topics he discussed was drowsy driving. So it was especially heartbreaking when his wife, Robyn, was killed in a drowsy driving incident on April 6, 1999.

“She was a good driver, used to long distance and had heard all about safe driving from me,” says Konstantin. Nevertheless, she died in the middle of the night on a long stretch of road in Texas when she fell asleep, woke up and crashed into a guardrail that crushed her inside the car.

Robyn was a mile and a half past a rest stop when she crashed. Konstantin wishes she had stopped there; it could’ve saved her life.

In 2005, Konstantin successfully petitioned the California State Senate and the California State Assembly to have April 6 declared Drowsy Driving Awareness Day to educate other drivers on when to get off the road.

If your eyes are closing or losing focus, if staying in your lane is challenging, if you miss exits or turns, if you can’t remember where you’ve been or when the song changed, you may have already nodded off. At that point, it’s time to get off the road. The highway is especially dangerous because of the speed limit.

“At 65 miles an hour, you are covering 100 feet a second,” says Konstantin. “Two seconds means the length of two football fields, and that’s a lot of opportunities for something to go wrong.”

Monotonous highway driving can have a hypnotic effect, so switch off driving every two hours and take frequent breaks. Avoid driving after taking any medication that advises against the use of heavy machinery because that description includes your car. Make sure you get the proper amount of sleep before long trips, and check your energy level before short ones.

A 20-minute nap can help revive you. If you can’t take a nap, exit the car, stretch your muscles and walk around for a few minutes. If it’s impossible to stop quickly, try chewing gum, turning on cold air, drinking caffeine or listening to talk radio. Any of these activities can help revive you for very short periods of time. Just get off the road, suggests criminal defense attorneys handling DUI cases in San Diego.